Hello, I have written an example of what I am trying to do...its not exact but its the basic idea. Here is my senario(Visual C++): Well, say for example you create an SDI using the appwizard and included a database view... say for argument sake the database has one table and displays information from the table at startup... now say that you add a CDialog to the project and it is shown when you select it from the menu...on this dialog, you can edit records from the database...when you click 'Ok' the dialog is unloaded and focus has returned to the view... so how do you update the information displayed in the view according to the changes you just made to the database through the dialog? I was thinking it would be good if I could figure out how to Delete the view and then recreate it but I'm completely lost with that... think you can help? thanks.. CES